US Patent Issued to MPI on Nov. 3 for "Membrane probe card, method of making the same and method of making tested semiconductor chip by using the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,395, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MPI Corp. (Chu-Pei City, Taiwan).

"Membrane probe card, method of making the same and method of making tested semiconductor chip by using the same" was invented by Yu-Shan Hu (Chu-Pei City, Taiwan), Shao-Lun Wei (Chu-Pei City, Taiwan), Yu-Wen Wang (Chu-Pei City, Taiwan) and Hao-Yu Chung (Chu-Pei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane probe card includes probes each having a base electrically connected with a trace of a membrane wiring structure, and a probe tip protruding from the base. The base has a tip placement section and an extension section, which extend from a first side e...